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From: tbetz@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Betz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Questions about NeXT Step
Summary: Not likely...
Keywords: NeXTStep, OSF
Message-ID: <7080@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 20 Oct 88 00:15:56 GMT
References: <73272@sun.uucp> <17503@gatech.edu>
Reply-To: tbetz@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Betz)
Organization: Zen Community of New York
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Quoth ken@gatech.UUCP (Ken Seefried iii) in <17503@gatech.edu>:
|Wouldn't life get interesting if NeXT and IBM submitted NeXT Step to the 
|OSF as a candidate for the OSF Unix windowing system...
|

Jobs has insisted that he will >not< submit NextStep to OSF.  I don't know 
for sure, but I suspect that IBM's licensing arrangement may preclude IBM
from submitting it independently.


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